As Bill Gates promised earlier this week during his last public speech as chairman of Microsoft at TechEd 2008, the company has released the second beta of Silverlight 2, Microsoft's Flash competitor. Silverlight 2 beta 2 comes as a 4.66MB download, but as Ars Technica already noted, the Silverlight homepage has not yet been changed to reflect the new release, but there is a changelog that details many of the changes in this release. The Mac OS X version has not yet been released.

Flash for *NIX; "Oh, we're improving it, we are still learning lot about the platform" - YOU'RE LEARNING ON THE JOB?! that was my reaction; end users are the guinea pigs for this companies inability to find decent *NIX programmers?

Linux desktop users represent a tiny percentage of the market. I'm surprised there is a player for it at all.